List of international goals scored by Samuel Eto'o

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Samuel Eto'o Fils has scored a total of 56 goals in 118 caps for Cameroon Samuel Eto'o.jpg
Samuel Eto'o Fils has scored a total of 56 goals in 118 caps for Cameroon

Samuel Eto'o is a retired Cameroonian professional footballer who played as a striker for the Cameroon national football team from 1997 to 2014. He is currently Cameroon's all-time goalscorer with 56 goals and 118 appearances, which also puts him as his nation's 2nd-most capped player behind Rigobert Song (137). He has represented his country at 4 FIFA World Cups (1998, 2002, 2010, 2014), 6 Africa Cup of Nations (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010), and the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup. He has helped Les Lions Indomptables win both the 2000 [1] and 2002 Africa Cup of Nations finals [2] and also reached the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, which they lost to France. He earned his first cap for Cameroon in 1997 during a 5–0 loss in a friendly against Costa Rica. However, he wouldn't score a goal until 2000 in a 3–0 win against Ivory Coast in a 2000 Africa Cup of Nations group stage match. [3] His only hat-trick while playing for Cameroon would come in a 3–1 win against Angola in a 2006 Africa Cup of Nations group stage match. [4] He eventually decided to retire from international duty in 2014 after joining Everton. [5]

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List of goals

Scores and results list Cameroon's goal tally first. [6]
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.28 January 2000 Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, GhanaFlag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg  Ivory Coast 2–03–0 2000 African Cup of Nations
2.6 February 2000Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria 1–02–1
3.10 February 2000Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 2–03–0
4.13 February 2000Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 1–02–2
5.19 April 2000 Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Somalia.svg  Somalia 3–03–0 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
6.28 January 2001 Stade de Kégué, Lomé, TogoFlag of Togo.svg  Togo 1–02–0
7.1 July 2001 Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Togo.svg  Togo 1–02–0
8.7 January 2002 Stade du 4-Août, Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoFlag of Burkina Faso.svg  Burkina Faso 1–03–1[[Friendly|Friendly]]
9.29 January 2002 Stade Babemba Traoré, Sikasso, MaliFlag of Togo.svg  Togo 2–03–0 2002 African Cup of Nations
10.27 March 2002 Charmilles Stadium, Geneva, SwitzerlandFlag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 1–12–2Friendly
11.26 May 2002 Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium, Kobe, JapanFlag of England.svg  England 1–02–2
12.6 June 2002 Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama, JapanFlag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia 1–01–0 2002 FIFA World Cup
13.27 March 2003 7 November Stadium, Radès, TunisiaFlag of Madagascar.svg  Madagascar 2–02–0 2003 Tunis Four Nations Tournament
14.19 June 2003 Stade de France, Saint-Denis, FranceFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1–01–0 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup
15.8 February 2004 Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet, Monastir, TunisiaFlag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 1–21–2 2004 African Cup of Nations
16.6 June 2004 Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Benin.svg  Benin 1–12–1 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier
17.4 July 2004Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg  Ivory Coast 1–02–0
18.5 September 2004 Osman Ahmed Osman Stadium, Cairo, EgyptFlag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 2–32–3
19.4 June 2005 Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, BeninFlag of Benin.svg  Benin 4–04–1
20.21 January 2006 Cairo Military Academy Stadium, Cairo, EgyptFlag of Angola.svg  Angola 1–03–1 2006 Africa Cup of Nations
21.2–1
22.3–1
23.25 January 2006Flag of Togo.svg  Togo 1–02–0
24.29 January 2006Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2003-2006).svg  DR Congo 2–02–0
25.3 June 2007 Antoinette Tubman Stadium, Monrovia, LiberiaFlag of Liberia.svg  Liberia 2–02–1 2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier
26.22 January 2008 Baba Yara Stadium, Kumasi, GhanaFlag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 1–32–4 2008 Africa Cup of Nations
27.2–4
28.26 January 2008Flag of Zambia.svg  Zambia 4–05–1
29.30 January 2008 Tamale Stadium, Tamale, GhanaFlag of Sudan.svg  Sudan 1–03–0
30.3–0
31.31 May 2008 Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Cape Verde.svg  Cape Verde 2–02–0 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier
32.8 June 2008 Stade George V, Curepipe, MauritiusFlag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 2–03–0
33.21 June 2008 Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania 1–02–1
34.2–1
35.11 October 2008Flag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 1–05–0
36.2–0
37.11 February 2009 Stade Robert Bobin, Bondoufle, FranceFlag of Guinea.svg  Guinea 2–13–1Friendly
38.3–1
39.5 September 2009 Stade Omar Bongo, Libreville, GabonFlag of Gabon.svg  Gabon 2–02–0 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier
40.9 September 2009 Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Gabon.svg  Gabon 2–02–1
41.14 November 2009 Fez Stadium, Fez, MoroccoFlag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 2–02–0
42.17 January 2010 Estádio Nacional da Tundavala, Lubango, AngolaFlag of Zambia.svg  Zambia 2–13–2 2010 Africa Cup of Nations
43.21 January 2010Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 1–12–2
44.19 June 2010 Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg, South AfricaFlag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 1–01–2 2010 FIFA World Cup
45.24 June 2010Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1–11–2
46.11 August 2010 Stadion Poznań, Poznań, PolandFlag of Poland.svg  Poland 1–03–0Friendly
47.2–0
48.4 September 2010 Anjalay Stadium, Belle Vue Harel, MauritiusFlag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 1–03–1 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier
49.2–1
50.3 September 2011 Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 3–06–0
51.7 October 2011 Stade des Martyrs, Kinshasa, DR CongoFlag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg  DR Congo 1–13–2
52.11 November 2011 Stade de Marrakech, Marrakesh, MoroccoFlag of Sudan.svg  Sudan 3–13–1 2011 LG Cup (Morocco)
53.13 November 2011Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 1–01–1
54.23 March 2013 Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Togo.svg  Togo 1–02–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier
55.2–1
56.1 June 2014 Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach, GermanyFlag of Germany.svg  Germany 1–02–2Friendly

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References

  1. ↑ "Cameroon 2-2 (4-3 pens) Nigeria". The Shot.
  2. ↑ "Cameroon 0-0 (3-2 pens) Senegal". worldfootball.net. 10 February 2002.
  3. ↑ "Cameroon 3-0 Ivory Coast". Soccerway. 28 February 2000.
  4. ↑ "Cameroon v Angola (2006 CAF Africa Cup of Nations)". Goal.com. 21 January 2006.
  5. ↑ "Samuel Eto'o: Cameroon striker retires from international football". BBC Sport. 27 August 2014.
  6. ↑ Samuel Eto'o Fils – Goals in International Matches Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
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